Scarlet Macaw

1. Crane wrote “The Red Badge of Courage” with the intention of refuting the glorification of war. What’s fresh about this book is that Crane uses two type of fictional writing; naturalism and realism. This book is different from other books written about war. 2. I believe that the passage written by Crane deeply describes what the soldiers encountered during the bloody chaotic battle. As a reader, I think Crane’s book is much more interesting, thrilling, and easier to relate to. Crane’s story…

Purpose of secret closet Dimmesdale has peculiar night activities. Hidden from the public eye, Dimmesdale practices mortification of the flesh in his “secret closet” as his way of coping with his guilty conscious. “In Mr. Dimmesdale 's secret closet, under lock and key, there was a bloody scourge. [Dimmesdale] plied it on his own shoulders; laughing bitterly at himself the while, and smiting so much the more pitilessly, because of that bitter laugh” (132). The poor minister suffered from…

term, many individuals obtain their own interpretation of what’s known as “sinful deeds”. Considering the contrasting personalities in humanity, separate religion and distinctive faith will guide the individual following the act. In Hawthorne’s, The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne, a woman encountering the inadequate features of life, endures the path of sin through transgressional choices, repentance, and courage. Firstly, Hester encountered the traumatic act of Puritan consequences through the…

themselves. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, the three main characters, Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth, and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale each go through tremendous character changes. Hawthorne may have been trying to suggest through the actions of his characters that people can always change at any point in their life. Hester Prynne has been ostracized by her village for being an adulterer and has been condemned to bear the scarlet letter as proof of her crime. She has her…

Symbols are used in a story to help the reader understand the characters and thoughts the author intended for the reader to have. In the story, the Scarlet Letter, the author Nathaniel Hawthorne uses many symbols to connect the reader to the main characters of the story and the ideas he wanted to express through them. Hawthorne’s symbols in the story consist of: a letter “A”, a rose bush, and a prison. In the story, Hester Prynne is found guilty of adultery and is forced to stitch a red…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. In it, the life of Hester Prynne, a convicted adulteress that’s forced to wear the titular scarlet letter A, is documented starting with her public trial. Interwoven into her narrative are the lives of Arthur Dimmesdale, Hester’s fellow adulterer, Roger Chillingworth, Hester’s husband,…

Imagine being covered from head to toe each time you left your house; hidden under a long cloak, your eyes blocked out by mesh, your appearance anonymous to preserve your purity. Those who dared to show their bodies would be stoned or thrown in prison. This is the reality of the world that many women lived in under the Mujahideen occupation of Afghanistan. Khaled Hosseini’s portrayal of Afghanistan in 1000 Splendid Suns gives an insight into the mistreatment of women in a heavily misogynistic…

In the romantic time period, religion was extremely strict and taken seriously; furthermore, any wrongdoing was punished by extreme measures. These harsh conditions created judgemental communities full of fear. In his short story, “The Minister’s Black Veil”, Nathaniel Hawthorne explains the effects of these issues on people. He tells the story of a parson, Mr. Hooper, who chooses to wear a black veil upon his face. In the story, the townspeople accuse him of committing a sin assuming his veil…

“Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.” This quote by Rachel Grady sums up my feeling after reading about life through the eyes of Mary Crow Dog in her book Lakota Woman. Mary Crow Dog lived a life of joy and sadness, oppression and small victories, and little retribution. Her life wasn’t easy from her childhood through her adulthood she fought for survival of herself and her people, the Lakota People. This essay will…

it’s evil, the wicked for their sins. I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless” As this verse in Isaiah 13:11 says the wicked will get punished for their sins, much like all three characters of The Scarlet Letter; Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth eventually got punished in the book, by ultimately dying at the end. But the ultimate question is, which of the three previously mentioned character is the most wicked and has the most…